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with stores and equipments for
the
in the voyage from
Macao to Callao
this harbour then notorious. I
understood that these operations
had ceased, till this
day's
list of
in the harbour startled
me into the conviction that the
Trade was
never so brisk
as at
present.
From the small number of
sailing vessels
now in this Port I
fear that relatively a large proportion of the minor trade by Foreign Trading Ships of this Port is now fitting out vessels to be
engaged in
as to several
of
them in every way ready to take in the Coolies
at Macao.
One Coolie Dealer lives in
Hongkong,
in an expensive style and I see a
whilst I was
travelling across
going
for a cargo of
Coolies to
America said he to get a cargo of
Being without the means
proper
to test the
accuracy of my
views I write subject to correction in the light of careful inquiry.
I have to
(Signed) John Smale,
Chief Justice.
(True Copy)
Acting
Colonial Secretary
(T.O.)